Vasilevo Municipality | |
Native Name: | Општина Василево Vasilevo Belediyesi |
Native Name Lang: | mk |
Settlement Type: | Rural municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Southeastern |
Flag Size: | 160px |
Image Blank Emblem: | Coat of arms of Vasilevo Municipality.svg |
Blank Emblem Type: | Coat of arms |
Blank Emblem Size: | 80px |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Slave Andonov (VMRO-DPMNE) |
Population Total: | 10552 |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Vasilevo (Macedonian: {{Audio|Mk-Vasilevo.ogg|Василево; Turkish: Vasilevo Belediyesi) is a municipality in the eastern part of North Macedonia. Vasilevo is also the name of the village where the municipal seat is found. Vasilevo Municipality is part of the Southeastern Statistical Region.
According to the last national census from 2021, this municipality has 10,552 inhabitants.[1] Ethnic groups in the municipality include:
2002 | 2021 | |||
Number | % | Number | % | |
TOTAL | 12,122 | 100 | 10,552 | 100 |
Macedonians | 9,958 | 82.2 | 6,831 | 64,7 |
Turks | 2,095 | 17.3 | 2,251 | 21.3 |
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources | n/a | n/a | 1,337 | 12.7 |
others | 69 | 0.6 | 133 | 1.26 |
Macedonians | Turks | Albanians | others | TOTAL | ||||||
Year | Births | % | Births | % | Births | % | Births | % | Births | |
2010 | 114 | 58.46 | 80 | 41.03 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.51 | 195 | |
2011 | 113 | 66.08 | 57 | 33.33 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.58 | 171 | |
2012 | 110 | 63.95 | 56 | 32.56 | 2 | 1.16 | 4 | 2.33 | 172 | |
2013 | 124 | 64.92 | 63 | 32.98 | 3 | 1.57 | 1 | 0.52 | 191 | |
2014 | 100 | 59.52 | 60 | 35.71 | 8 | 4.76 | 0 | 0.00 | 168 | |
2015 | 78 | 59.09 | 48 | 36.36 | 4 | 3.03 | 2 | 1.52 | 132 | |
2016 | 87 | 56.13 | 55 | 35.48 | 9 | 5.81 | 4 | 2.58 | 155 | |
2017 | 86 | 60.14 | 49 | 34.27 | 6 | 4.20 | 2 | 1.40 | 143 | |
2018 | 75 | 58.59 | 39 | 30.47 | 10 | 7.81 | 4 | 3.13 | 128 | |
2019 | 62 | 50.00 | 54 | 43.55 | 5 | 4.03 | 3 | 2.42 | 124 | |
2020 | 53 | 46.90 | 50 | 44.25 | 6 | 5.31 | 4 | 3.54 | 113 | |
2021 | 44 | 42.72 | 56 | 54.37 | 2 | 1.94 | 1 | 0.97 | 103 | |
2022 | 45 | 44.12 | 50 | 49.02 | 4 | 3.92 | 3 | 2.94 | 102 | |
2021 | 40 | 38.46 | 63 | 60.58 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.96 | 104 |
Vasilevo has a higher concentration of Catholics (Eastern) than most municipalities in North Macedonia, with the percentage of Catholic residents standing at 4.8% of the total populace in 2002 according to the census (581 Catholic residents out of 12122 total residents of the municipality[3]). The majority of these Catholic residents, 520 of them, live in the town of Nova Maala, where, out of the total of 823 residents, they make up a majority of 63.2%, followed by the 232 Muslim residents (28.2%).[3]